creationist

He is the man the Lord raised up as the father of the modern creationist movement.

Today, in contrast to Gosse, young Earth creationists posit that not only is the Earth young but that the scientific data supports that view.However, the apparent age concept is still used in young Earth creationist literature.There are examples of young Earth creationists arguing that Adam did not have a navel.…

He is considered by many to be "the father of modern creation science."He wrote numerous creationist and devotional books, and made regular television and radio appearances.He supported his religious beliefs in the inerrancy of the Bible by opposing facts and scientific results he saw as being contrary to it, especially such facts as the billions of years time-scales involved in measurements of evolution, the age of the Earth, and the age of the Universe.…

The Christian creationist community is highly critical of many of the ancient astronaut ideas.

Hence there is no philosophical place for a creationist God in this system.It is also argued by commentators of this text that the existence of Ishvara cannot be proved and hence cannot be admitted to exist.…

He produced several anti-evolution and creationist works, particularly on the subject of flood geology.His views did not become common amongst creationists until after his death, particularly with the modern creation science movement starting in the 1960s.…

According to historian Ronald L. Numbers, Bryan was not nearly as much of a fundamentalist as many modern-day creationists.Instead he is more accurately described as a "day-age creationist".…

He oversaw the development of the church's earth sciences program at Loma Linda University.He has taught science methodology in regional church conference and has explained creationist concepts to students in public colleges.In the area of doctrinal apologetics, Brand has published a book in response to the major critics of church founder Ellen G. White.…

He argued that creationist education should be given the same tax payer funding as evolution education.The lawsuit was dismissed by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on the grounds that the textbooks disseminated science, not religion.…

Led by Steve Abrams, then board president, the creationists collaborated with the Creation Science Association of Mid America to change the committee's recommendations, removing significant references to evolution and replacing material with creationist perspectives.They were able to convince one state board member to switch sides and vote in favor of the creationist science standards.Reactions included recruiting those who wrote pro-science letters to newspapers in order to generate a core group of activists.…

He maintains two rolodexes - one for Christians, and one for non-Christians.While he seems to have originally accepted evolution, he later takes up the creationist cause to bolster his church's membership.He is especially intolerant of the Roman Catholic Church as he is shown brawling with a priest.…

I am now contented, and can sing my nunc dimittis.What a joke it would be if I pat you on the back when you attack some immovable creationist!You have most cleverly hit on one point, which has greatly troubled me; if, as I must think, external conditions produce little DIRECT effect, what the devil determines each particular variation?…Cited from Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II

In addition, the hundredth anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species was in 1959, and this sparked renewed public interest in evolutionary biology.The creationist fervor of the past seemed like ancient history.A historian at Oklahoma's Northeastern State University, R. Halliburton, even made a prediction in 1964 that "a renaissance of the [creationist] movement is most unlikely."…

In this usage, nastika refers to the non-belief of Vedas rather than non-belief of God.However, all these schools also rejected a notion of a creationist god and so the word nastika became strongly associated with them.The Rig Veda, the oldest of the Vedas, deals with a lot of skepticism when dealing with the fundamental question of a creator God and the creation of the universe.…

The book has attracted widespread commentary, with many books written in response.Dawkins has argued against creationist explanations of life in his previous works on evolution.The theme of The Blind Watchmaker, published in 1986, is that evolution can explain the apparent design in nature.…

Depending on the situation, organisms' complexity can either increase, decrease, or stay the same, and all three of these trends have been observed in evolution.Creationist sources frequently define evolution according to a colloquial, rather than scientific, meaning.As a result, many attempts to rebut evolution do not address the findings of evolutionary biology (see straw man argument).…

But, from the inside, we are very strongly Christian.I am a Creationist, and we see the farm as a mission station to give people scientific permission to believe in God'.…

She was the top candidate of her party in the 2009 elections to the European Parliament, but wasn't elected.She is an evangelical Christian and has been labeled a creationist, even though she claims not to care about the subject.She used to be a member of Livets ord.…

The scope of the ruling affected state schools and did not include independent schools, home schools, Sunday schools and Christian schools, all of whom remained free to teach creationism.During the case, development of a creationist biology textbook continued with hopes of a huge market if the appeal went their way.Drafts were given various titles, including Biology and Creation.…